Slide buckle



y 1932- J. H. DOMKEE 1,859,356

SLIDE BUCKLE Filed Dec. 15, 1929 ATTy Patented May 24, 1932 JOHN H. DOIMKEE, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE WIRE NOV EL'IY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT SLIDE BUCKLE Application filed December 13, 1929.

This invention relates to slide buckles employed for adjusting the length of stra s,

webbing, and the like, upon which the buc le is mounted, the adjustment being maintained thereby without any penetration into the material, and the objects of the invention are to provide an entirely rigid and indestructible slide buckle; to provide a slide buckle every part of which lies within a common plane and therefore is reversible; and to provide a slide buckle having a pair of loops arranged in a common plane and integrally connected at one side of the loops and connectedly secured at the other side by means of establishing a permanent union of the engaging metal surfaces at said other side. With these and other objects in view as may become apparent from the within disclosures, the invention consists not only of the particular form herein pointed out and illustrated in the drawings but readily admits of certain modifications within the scope of what hereinafter may be claimed.

I am aware that the art discloses slide buckles comprising a rectangular frame havor forced separation.

The character of the improvement may be best understood by reference to one illustrative device embodying the invention and illustrated by the drawings in which the Figure 1 is an elevation of the buckle; and the Figures 2 and 3 are opposite end views thereof.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the buckle may be made in the form of a rectangular wire-frame having one or more fixed intermediate bars dividing the frame into a pair of loops and, as made from a single Serial No. 413,864.

completion of the process of manufacture, the

loops are free one from the other at the opposite side, the loops 1 and 2 and the side-bar 3 being arranged in a common plane. The intermediate bars 4 and 5 extend integrally from the temporarily free side of the loops across the buckle frame in the plane of the loops to the integrally connected side thereof, the ends of the bars a and 5, being the two ends of the single piece of wire from which the buckle is made, engaging a middle portion of the inner side face 6 of the sidebar 3. The interengaging metal surfaces of the loops 1 and 2, as at 7, and the metal surfaces of the ends of the bars 4 and 5 and the metal surface of the face 6, as at 8, are welded, brazed, or soldered, to accomplish a permanent intimate union at each of the places 7 and 8 to provide an entirely rigid and indestructible slide buckle every part of which is within a common plane and therefore reversible in use in that the buckle may be turned around from the position illustrated by the Figure 1 so that the upper bar 9 may be in the position of the lower bar 10, and the lower bar 10 may assume the position of the upper bar 9, or so that the slide-bar 3 and the opposite side of the loops, as illustrated, may each occupy the position of the other.

I claim 1. A slide buckle comprising a pair of metal loops arranged in a common plane and together having an upper bar and a lower bar integrally connected at one side of the loops and free at the other side; and straight intermediate bars extending in said plane integrally from the free side to the connected side; means for securing in permanent intimate union the metal of each intermediate bar extremity to the metal of the connected side; and means for securing in permanent intimate union the engaging metals of the free sides of the loops.

2. A slide buckle comprising a pair of metal loops arranged in a common plane and together having an upper bar and a lower bar integrally connected at one side of the loops and free at the opposite side; and straight intermediate bars integrally extending parallelly one with the other in said plane from the 5 said free side to said connected side; and means for securing in permanent intimate union the engaging metal surfaces of the'free sides of the loops.

JOHN H.. DOMKEE. 

